Renowned Lebanese artist, Hussein Madi joyful experiments in colour and form have resulted in a unique body of work that relates to modern artists like Matisse and Picasso, as well as to the principles of divine harmony that inform the abstract designs of Islamic art. His intensely personal fusion of European and Islamic influences presents itself with a force that is both arresting and subtle. Combining meticulousness and sensuality, Madi's lines sing with a spontaneous freedom that belies the careful, even exacting, calculations that the artist invests in each work.
Madi is a superb draftsman, possessing an eye acutely sensitive to the linear definition of form. When he draws the nude, his crayon or pen intimately follows each curve of the body, each languorous protrusion of limb, with an astonishing purity of expression.
Born in 1938 in Chabaa, Lebanon. Hussein Madi studied painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in Beirut and at the Accademia di Belle Arti and the Accademia San Giacomo in Rome, where he resided for twenty-two years. In 1987, he returned to live permanently in Lebanon. Since 1965, Madi has held more than fifty solo exhibitions in Lebanon and internationally. In themselves, the exhibitions have affirmed Madi's outstanding talents as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and designer.
Image: Hussein Madi, Femme Orientale, 2021, pigmented giclée on paper, H500 mm x W820 mm, edition 2/16.
The exhibibition 'Les Femmes de Madi' closes 12 June 2022, 4 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2JE.
Courtesy and © Hussein Madi, Janet Rady Fine Art, Teal Editions and Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy, 2022.
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